The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-16

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Q, sir,5es 6n lp me will you
print this Hlor petition Of mine. with
the tear sta Al an II. and your reply
to II 5A the fofl. and send me a
copy q the baper that Lean show it
TO HAhry's father ia 81 a cousin of
my N nut otlefs has nothing
e wIlieh 'sI 4 |is9 Il. cap a A7lth pride Z
p. 81 have presumed some on
your good nature, because l have
been told that you was born here. |
am sorry to say that Shirley has
never overcome this entirely. 1t has
hurt her with other towns in the
State, but yon can see yourself that
there was no way we could provide
against it, My wife sends loYe, and
hoI"s you will print this letter with
out giving my name, or if so, with a
fictitious name, as they call it, and
perhaps it will fall into the hands of
people who come down here every
summer with nothing in them but
sincere friendship and 90 home full
of yictuals. L wish you would put
into it some way piece that says !
do not regard Christmas present of
a chalk meerShum pipe, with a red
cellulOid stem, as an Offset against a
summers board of a family that has
more malaria than good manners.
Slap that in, in your genial way, so
as not to give offense, and whenever
you visit your old birthplace and
want to just let 60 all holts and have
a good time come right to our house.
| have lathed and plastered the cook
room, and fitted it up as a kind of
lnebriates' Home, and / would feel
tickled to death to have you come
and see what you think of it.
Z. L. T.
P. S. again.--If you print this let
ter Slocum would be a good fictitious
name to sign to it, and l would want
an extra copy of the paper also. It.
REPLY.
SIR ;-WilI you allow me to say
that l think it is such letters as the
above that create i'll feeling between
the people of the country and the
people OF the city and cause the rela-
tions to be strained, especially those
relations that live in the country.
Although you are not altogether in
the wrong, Eben, and although coun-
try people, who live near to natures
heart, have certain inalienable rights
which should be respected, yet there
is no work on etiquette which covers
the case you allude to.
1t would be very difficult for me
to write out code of ethics for the
government of your relative while
in the country, and from the descrip-
ton you give of him | judge we
could not enforce it anyway without
calling out the State troops.
take him to belong to that class
of New York business men who are
so active doing nothing every day
that in order to impress people with
their Importance they are in the
habit of pushing a womon or two off
the Brooklyn bridge in their wild
struggle to get oyer into the City
Hall park and sit down. | presume
that he is that kind of a man here
and so we think you ought to get
along with him through July and
August if we take him for the rest
of the year.
He is the kind that would knock
| down an old woman in the morning
in his efforts to get the first possible
elevated train and then do nothing
else all day but try to recover from
the shock. l wouldn't be surprised
| ii he ultimately wrote DOoK on
etiquette which will inform a cOun-
try-man how to conduct himself
while he is in town. Maybe he is
writing it now.
l can imagine Eben, what sad
hayoc the son of such a man would
create in your quiet Piscatauui:
home. In my minds eye l can see
him trying to carry out his fathers
lofty notions of refinement and cour.
tesy. | can see his bright smile as
he lands at your door and begins tC
insert himself into your home life
to breathe the resinous air of the
piny woods and to pour kerosene in
to the sugarbowl to chase the gaudy
decaIcomanic butterfly and put an
gleworms in the churn.
In this mans book on etiquette he
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